Solomon Leach joined the Daily News in December 2012 as a nighttime crime and general assignment reporter and has been covering education since November 2013, focusing on operations at the School District of Philadelphia and higher ed. Prior to joining the People Paper, Solomon spent five years at Metro Philly covering just about anything you can imagine. Follow him on Twitter @ChroniclesofSol or e-mail him at leachs@phillynews.com.

Regina Medina has been with the Daily News since October 1999, covering a wide array of subjects for the paper including crime, celebrity news and now Philadelphia's k-12 schools. She has reported for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Daily Journal, an English-language newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela. Regina Medina can be reached at medinar@phillynews.com or on Twitter, @ReginaMedina.